EVAN BURKIN is fond of Russian authors: Dostoevsky, Sokolov, Shiskin, Nabokov, Akhmatova, and so many others. He works as a development writer at a university. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, The Madrigal, Rain Taxi, and Sur.